Daniel Rooney: Object found during Army death exhumation

An "object of interest" has been found during the exhumation of a man shot by the Army, police say.
Daniel Rooney was 18 when he was shot in St James Crescent in west Belfast in September 1972. He died later in hospital.
His body has been exhumed at Milltown cemetery, as part of an investigation into the Military Reaction Force (MFR).
The circumstances leading to his death are disputed.
The MRF was an Army unit operating in Belfast in the early 1970s.
Det Ch Insp Neil McGuinness, said on Tuesday that Mr Rooney's body had been removed to allow some forensic work to be carried out.... read more

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